Born Again by Frances Vantassel | Vintage Pentecostal Record | 1975This hilarious vintage vinyl find is a vernacular recording by Reverend Albert Vantassel & his wife Frances, who founded the First Pentecostal Church in Springfield, MA in 1967. The record dates to 1975 & features the untrained Frances Vantassel singing church songs. The prior owner of the record doodled devil horns, a pitchfork, and a moustache on her photo, which really made me laugh. The sleeve is splitting and the record shows some where, though

Bound in green cloth boards with an illustration of an imprisoned girl on the cover

Unusual outdoor shot of an older woman standing among the trees holding her ear horn or hearing trumpet

The crowds who flocked to the church were so overwhelming

Which makes still more frightful your forlorn

Antique newsprint covers the back

Some fading to the black dye from age

featuring a weeping figure in a cemetery with willows and a broken column

and its original sewing notions

though it’s become a near impossible & very costly pursuit over the last 10 years or so

Of the truth of this statement I’m well assured

Limited edition of 1

The textblock is clean & tight